Flavor of the week #35

Alexander Kowalski
www.myspace.com/alexanderkowalski
www.alexanderkowalski.com
( ;D --> Kowalski elegantly fuses elements from classic Detroit and historical Berlin techno sound. His affection for sophisticated bass lines, deep beats and challenging arrangements breathes new life into Techno. He knows perfectly how to program his tracks to sound straight, deep, housy, dubby or funky.)
Puesta de Sol
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The Heat Of The Night
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The Lost Chamber - Alexander Kowalski
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pjYiLOmrU&feature=related
Start Chasing - Alexander Kowalski (extrawelt remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SeWJNTGRRE&feature=related 
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/09/ricardo-villalobos-www.html

Conforce
www.myspace.com/conforce
( ;D --> Conforce is the moniker of Boris Bunnik from The Island of Terschelling. Nowadays he lives in the city of Leeuwarden. He developed his passion for electronic music around the age of 10. His father owned a large collection of usual and unusual instruments like the bagpipe, accordion, guitar, piano and harmonica's. Somehow this must have contained him with some musical interest. Michael Jackson also got airplay in his living room. But it was in a summer that his father who is also working as a forester was on a patrol in the eastern part of the island. He found a black colored tape who someone must have lost during a walk. When he took it home, he gave it to his son with the words “perhaps you could do something with it”. Not much later he bought his first taperecorder. The next thing he did was to put the tape in and take a listen. Soon there were all kinds of weird and freaky noises coming out. It attacked him. “What was this kind of sh*t?” he wondered. After that listen he did put it away in the closet - only for a very short while. He realised that this must have been the first serious house music he had been listening to. On the tape was Detroit orientated techno from producers like Orlando Voorn, Speedy J, Joey Beltram and Carl Craig who worked with the characteristic hardware equipment.)
Grace
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( ;D --> It's hard to believe that Grace is Conforce's debut release for Delsin. Like that label's output, Boris Bunnik's work typifies an open-ended approach to music-making, which integrates techniques from the first wave of Dutch techno producers mixed with other influences.)


SAM
www.myspace.com/projectsam
( ;D --> Founded by the highly explosive duo Joel Meyer and Daniel Meyer, the industrial project SAM has so far released two highly successful albums in 2006 and 2008 and have also established a reputation as an excellent live act.)
Brainwasher
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Portico Quartet
www.myspace.com/porticoquartet  
http://porticoquartet.com
( ;D --> The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of schoolfriends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, and play festivals and clubs. Yet what distinguishes them from dozens of other Hackney hopefuls is the way they sound - a fresh, unclichéd resynthesis and reinvention of music that's both pleasingly familiar and thrillingly new, like World Music from the future. With largely acoustic resources - percussion, bass and wind instruments - they have conjured and refined a group signature that's immediately recognisable. Thanks to the use of the hang, a tuned percussion instrument bought on impulse at a music festival, they have a sound that is instantly attractive, yet uncompromisingly individual, and it's this, combined with the cheerful eloquence of their performances, that has brought Portico Quartet a long way in a short time.)
Isla
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Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub
www.myspace.com/phillipboaandthevoodooclub
www.phillipboa.com
( ;D --> In 1985, Phillip Boa (born Ernst Ulrich Figgen) founded the Independent band Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub. With their album Hair and the single Container Love, they experienced a commercial breakthrough and international recognition in 1989. Boa's music is influenced by British punk rock and New Wave, its style swings between pop and avantgarde. A continuous charasteric are the catchy and melodic choruses, interrupted or alienated by atmospheric shifts. Thereby the voice of band member Pia Lund and Boa's own throaty singing contrast diametrically.
Live! Exile on Valetta Street
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And Then She Kissed Her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2BocR5s3u4&feature=related

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Flavor of the week #34

Kant Kino
www.myspace.com/kantkino08
( ;D --> Kant Kino was started late 2008 for playing at a free slot at Elektrostat 2008 (major underground festival in Norway celebrating 10 years - this year with Apoptygma Berzerk and Front for 242 and many others). Kant Kino consist of band members active in Industrial Heads, Skin Disease and The Film Inside. KANT KINO inject the distorted force of the 90's dark elektro genre into their strong 80's EBM roots to render dark body music with distorted vocals and a strong sense for melody. Have you ever dared to have the forbidden thought of hearing a fresh combination of HOCICO or WUMPSCUT’s distorted darkness with the melodic EBM side of classic acts like NITZER EBB or LEAETHER STRIP? Expect EBM with the Norwegian seal of quality!)
We Are Kant Kino - You Are Too
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We Are Kant Kino - You Are Not

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CombiChrist
www.myspace.com/combichrist  
www.combichrist.com  
Never Surrender
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( ;D --> After one and a half years of continuous touring activities (also supporting German legends Rammstein along the way), one of the most influential Electro-Industrial-acts of our time returns with a bang: Combichrist! The red hot new single “Never Surrender” is a raw and dry beat-attack that discharges into an infernal mayhem of a chorus. With this aggressive groove-monster, Andy LaPlegua and band are bound to take the alternative dance floors around the world by storm, making the single a formidable appetizer for the new album “Making Monsters”, scheduled for release on August 27th, 2010. Remixes from IAMX, Terence Fixmer and Melt round off this relentless and excellent club package.)
Making monsters
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/front-line-assembly-www.html
and:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-17.html


Kiew
www.myspace.com/kiew
www.kiew.org
( ;D --> KiEw is a German electro-industrial project founded in late 1990 by Andreas "Thedi" Thedens.)
Mental [per]mutation
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( ;D --> Welcome to a new audio therapy in the Electro-madhouse! On “mental [per]mutation”, our favourite patients dive deeper into the everyday life of the institution, unearthing a sonic roller coaster ride of thudding mutated dance-floor-Industrial hybrids (“Käferfrühstück”, “Mister 29” and many more) , acoustic experiments, as well as instrumentals with a soundtrack-like feel (the “Retrograd”-series.) During the course of the album, the listener will gain deep insights into psychoacoustic excerpts from the patients’ files, strange new forms of therapy and numerous soliloquies, often between multiple personalities. “mental [per]mutation“ includes a second disc on which special cases from outside the institution (among them the NYC-Techno-legend Lenny Dee) have gained access to KiEw’s sound files to inject them with their very own madness. Welcome to Disco Dementia! Only one question remains: are the musicians mad or is it the listener?)


Holy Fuck
www.myspace.com/holyfuck
Latin
( ;D --> An interesting fact is that they don't use computers to produce the music. Instead, they use live drums and bass, as well as a myriad of other electric devices (toy keyboards, guitar effects pedals, and notably a 35mm film synchronizer). It's said that they also don't rehearse, which is pretty mind-blowing after listening to the tight jams on this album.)
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/flavor-of-week-7.html


Faithless
www.myspace.com/faithless
www.faithless.co.uk
( ;D --> Faithless is "unique among dance acts in excelling at both high-octane club tracks and fully-rounded, satisfying eclectic albums," according to Q magazine. The London-based trio has sold more than three million albums—including Reverence, Sunday 8pm, and Outrospective—and four million singles worldwide with hits such as "Salva Mea," "Insomnia," "God Is a Deejay," and "We Come 1.")
The Dance
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( ;D --> 2010 release from the iconic British Electronic act. The Dance sees Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo reach the bar that their back-cat sets so high, and Maxi reckons it's 'chock-a-block with dance tunes which we hope will be the soundtrack to many Saturday nights for a while to come.)
Not Going Home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmtqbNuqG4  

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Flavor of the week #33

Schwefelgelb
www.myspace.com/schwefelgelb
www.schwefelgelb.de
( ;D --> "Two handsome german boys" making in-your-face electro that's as much punk as it is pop. Call it the neu neue deutsche Welle. Melodys drill themselves inside the head, beats forge ahead as piercing vocals meet lovingly produced, minimalistic musical details. Though definitly influenced by 80's New Wave, NDW and Punk, SCHWEFELGELB transfer these old cliches into something very new via some razor-sharp progressive sounds)
Das Ende vom Kreis Release: 29.10.2010
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Alt und Neu
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Ich Hab Dich Gesehen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dk11mmcuX4&feature=related


Adolf Diguer
www.myspace.com/adolfdiguer
( ;D --> Initially influenced by groups like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, O.M.D, Front 242 … etc. His interest for the music of that epoch was leading him to realizing mixed tapes. Evolving the Electro and the Minimal influenced by Djs and such producers as Richie Hawtin, Michael Mayer, Miss Kittin, Dj Hell etc .. having like indexes someone of the stamps most important (Minus, Poker Flat, Bpitch, Get Physical ..). These styles allow him to realize meetings more electronic and to explore all his slopes, which they can include from Electro House, Minimal and up to the most pure Electro.)
Acoustic Drug
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Hocico
www.hocico.com
www.myspace.com/hocico
Dog Eat Dog
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( ;D --> A massive appetizer for the upcoming album “Tiempos De Furia!” Hocico will be touring in autumn!)
Blasphemies In The Unholy Land
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Disidencia Inquebrantable
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Dog eat dog
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKPrxgROYE
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/03/flavor-of-week-12.html


Vavinchi
www.myspace.com/vavinchi
( ;D --> Vladimir Vavilov started music carreer as a composer and sound producer and launched intrinsic projects "HOBOS" in Moscow presented like a symbiose between progressive techno house and electro tendencies.Vladimir is curently creating and advancing the new solo project "VAVINCHI DEEP HOUSE Trance.)
ROOFTOP 07.02.10 vavinchi DJ SET
http://soundcloud.com/vavinchi
Astronaut
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Naïve Custo
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Mick Chillage
www.myspace.com/mickchillage  
( ;D --> Mick Chillage is one half of Dublin based radio DJ's The Chillage Idiots who have been playing a wide range of music within the spectrum of electronica on Dublins XFM..Mick has been producing music since late 1996. His Influences are wide ranging from John Barry to Kraftwerk to Eno to Larry Heard & beyond so his productions cover a variety of genres, techno,house,electro, IDM, ambient, dub, minimal etc, sometimes fusing all these styles in to one track.)
Vaporized

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Tales from the Igloo
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Flavor of the week #32

Gregor Tresher
www.myspace.com/gregortresher
www.gregor-tresher.de
( ;D --> In the field of electronic music, Gregor Tresher is by no means a debutant. For more than ten years the thirty-four-year old DJ and producer from Frankfurt gathered merits modernizing the algorithms of electronic music. It has been his “Still EP“ in 2004 that upgraded him into the Champions League of European Techno producers. After many highlight releases like “Neon“, “Full Range Madness“, “The Wombat“ or “The Now People“ on labels like Intacto, Cocoon, Great Stuff or Rebel One, it was his eagerly-awaited debut album “A Thousand Nights“ that defined the state of the art in electronic dancemusic 2008, with its titletrack beeing the year´s best selling Techno song on Beatport.)
The Life Wire
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A Thousand Nights
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Still
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5OkpOeWvB4&feature=related
Black Rain (Gregor Tresher remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwUM-pk86c&feature=related
A Thousand Nights (Extrawelt Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnyqQ0e1wvo&feature=related


Hans Zimmer
www.hans-zimmer.com
( ;D --> If you have been to the cinema or watched a DVD in the last 20 years, it's likely you have heard a Hans Zimmer track. Born in Germany in 1957, the keyboard player and writer began his career in the early 1980's electronic bands Ultravox and The Buggles, and with an Italian new wave band Krisma. His real fame came from his film scores; his first big success was in 1988 with the music for the film Rain Man, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Since then the multi award-winning producer has an extensive list of credits that include The Lion King, Gladiator and The Da Vinci Code. As a tribute to his versatility, his most recent success is the "Spider Pig" tune from The Simpsons Movie.)
Inception [Soundtrack]
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Inception: Building the Dream (Time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfR44GxlCY&feature=player_embedded


Polarkreis 18
www.myspace.com/polarkreis18
www.polarkreis18.de
( ;D --> Polarkreis 18 is a German pop band from Dresden, Saxony. The bandmembers met at school where they formed the band Jack of all Trades in 1998. In 2004 they renamed their band Polarkreis 18. The musical style of the band can be described as pop, synthpop and indietronic. Their albums include: Polarkreis 18 and more recently The Colour Of Snow with the single "Allein Allein" (Alone Alone) which scored number one on the German Media Control Top100 Singles from 31 October 2008 to 4 December 2008.)
Colour of Snow
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Artesia

www.myspace.com/artesia1983
www.artesia-music.com
( ;D --> With ethereal female choirs and a celtic violonist, Artesia invent a fairyesque and dark atmosphere close to The Lords of the ring's original soundtrack. Artesia invites us in this land of mysteries & legends from the West of France.)
Llydaw
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Chants d'automne
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Hilvern
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Artesia - Invitation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3fPvK5WMaw&NR=1


Dark Matter :: Multiverse
www.multiverse-music.com
( ;D --> Multiverse Music have pulled together several of the best labels in dubstep and techno. The labels include Tectonic, Earwax, Caravan, Build and Kapsize, along with other currently dormant labels (Subtext, Vertical Sound etc) and between them they've helped define the sound of Bristol's bass music culture over the years. Multiverse Music have released a compilation to tie everything in together, it's called Dark Matter, which steers us from the early days of dubstep, with classics from Pinch, Skream and Loefah, to now, with the likes of Joker, 2562, Emptyset, Baobinga and even me (hello).)
You can have a quick preview here:
Dark Matter :: Multiverse 2004-2009
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http://soundcloud.com/multiverse/sets/multiverse-darkmatter

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Flavor of the week #31

Sparklehorse & Danger Mouse & David Lynch
www.dnots.com
www.sparklehorse.com
www.myspace.com/sparklehorse
www.dangermousesite.com
www.davidlynch.com
www.myspace.com/davidlynchfoundation
( ;D --> Danger Mouse's collaboration album with Mark 'Sparklehorse' Linkous and David Lynch, dedicated to Vic Chesnutt, who contributed to the album but committed suicide on Christmas Day 2009. Sparklehorse also tragically killed himself in Knoxville, on March 6 of this year at the age of 47. Originally set for a 2009 release, Dark Night of Soul was designed by Sparklehorse to be a multimedia project with producer Danger Mouse and movie director David Lynch. The anticipation surrounding the album's release grew as guest artists ranging from Julian Casablancas of the Strokes and Frank Black of the Pixies to Iggy Pop and The Flaming Lips added their own unique touch to individual songs on the album.)
Dark Night Of The Soul
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wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul_(album)


Scape One
www.myspace.com/scapeone
http://carbonfeed.com
( ;D --> Scape One (full name Kurt William Baggaley, born April 20, 1967) is an electro producer and recording artist from the South Coast of England, one of the most prolific producers of the underground UK Electro scene. Kurt prefers to draw inspiration from various sources which range from the Old school hip hop releases of New York and Los Angeles, European Electronic music, Japanese Electropop, Detroit Techno, 70’s Funk and Deep House.)
MSR 045/ Militant Science
http://www.junodownload.com/products/msr-045/1589372-02
MSR 041/ Militant Science
http://www.junodownload.com/products/msr-041/1587647-02
Diffusion Of Innovations
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Milieu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzGwl1hntg


Krusseldorf
www.myspace.com/krusseldorf  
www.krusseldorf.com
( ;D --> Krusseldorf is the solo project of Swedish born Simon Heath. The sound of Krusseldorf is generally of a dreamily chilled nature - a clean, lustrous sound with glitchy, effected sparkle.)
Bohemian Groove
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( ;D --> Bohemian Groove, the new album from multitalented Swedish musician and producer, Krusseldorf, is a mystery drenched electronic excursion with dreamy atmospheres and beautiful melodies. This album offers a real musical journey through time and space, a dreamlike sonic adventure, reaching into and fusing various downtempo electronic genres.)
Boxing
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Horse Gives Birth To Fly
www.myspace.com/horsegivesbirthtofly
http://horsegivesbirthtofly.blogspot.com
( ;D --> They name theirselves as "ritual noise". Borned in 2007, Montpelier, France as duo (Kriss and Miccam), Horse Gives Birth To Fly is the project which makes me very intrigued, considerate and awake nature of explorer. There are no noise, like you can imagine as distortion fury, rather rustling textures, appearing and dissapearing layers, unknown sources and magical, shamanic atmosphere. Following by one of track of Deutsch Nepal from "Tolerance" album ( http://www.discogs.com/Deutsch-Nepal-Tolerance/release/123769 ), French artists are presenting experimental ambient tunes, with deep reverb, unexpected sonic events, noisy eruptions.)
Interview with Industrial Culture:
http://www.frequencyinstitute.com/energy/sounds/experimental/409-horse-gives-birth-to-fly-interview.html
Ourbouros
http://horsegivesbirthtofly.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-release-out-now.html 
http://www.discogs.com/Horse-Gives-Birth-To-Fly-Ourbouros/release/2354238


Legowelt
www.myspace.com/legowelt
( ;D --> Legowelt (real name Danny Wolfers) is a Dutch electronic musician who describes his musical style as "a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack.")
Disco Rout
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Slompy Jitt EP
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Disco Rout
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXoCcxwH4Y&feature=youtu.be&a

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Flavor of the week #30

Kuedo (Jamie Vex'd)
www.myspace.com/kuedo
( ;D --> Jamie Vex'd slips into his Kuedo moniker for a delightfully wonky mix of bass music.Even if you only have a passing interest in the more sub-heavy end of dance music, chances are you'll have heard of Vex'd. Jamie Teasdale and Roly Porter's fusion of dubstep with industrial and UK rave music on 2005's Degenerate album paved the way for countless international and festival appearances. Tiring of the hectic schedule and life in London, the pair decided to move from the city in early '07, with Roly heading west to Bristol and Jamie jetting to Berlin. Unfortunately, this meant that producing collaborative Vex'd material for their planned second album was a slow and difficult process, and they consequently decided to each focus on their own solo material. Jamie has been the more prolific of the two thus far, again aligning himself with Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu imprint for 12-inches both as Jamie Vex'd, and more recently under his new Kuedo moniker. The recent material has seen Teasdale move away from the dark and industrial dubstep sound of Vex'd, instead taking inspiration from the new wave of off-kilter beatsmiths that have emerged in the post-Dilla era.)
Dream Sequence EP
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RA196 100301
http://soundcloud.com/surefire/ra196-100301-kuedo
In System Travel E.P.
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www.myspace.com/vexd
( ;D --> The duo Vex’d were among the first of the dubstep generation of producers to collect their work on a full album. Degenerate was assembled in 2005, around the time these childhood friends had moved to Bristol to soak up the birthplace of the electronics that had inspired them. Their work together has been sporadic since, but the spooks+jackhammers of tracks like “Crusher Dub” have resonated widely. Maybe even back to the source: Portishead’s “Machine Gun” gets its stun from the same mix of unnatural snares and lovely ambiance.)
Cloud Seed
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( ;D --> Dubstep is now more of an institution than a modality. One need only compare Vex’d’s Cloud Seed with any of the current outputs sprouting from Hotflush, Punch Drunk, 3024, Hyperdub, or even Vex’d’s own host label, Planet Mu, to witness the ways in which the temperature within the scene has gravitated from chilly to hot, and in which the landscape has deviated from sepulchral post-industrial ruins to a kind of reconstructive modernism.)
Incal & Arzach trailers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBktKOQGBYA


Jimmy Edgar
www.myspace.com/colorstrip  
www.jimmyedgar.com
( ;D --> Jimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based electronic music artist, signed to Warp Records. Influenced mostly by Jazz, funk, street beat and r&b in these early years, he began his musical pursuit by playing the drums in experimental bands and by making tape recordings. Most of these recordings, consisting mainly of pitch bended tape loops, cut edits, field recordings, and noise tracks, were the beginning of his experimentation with the technical aspects of production.)
XXX
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Courstrip
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http://www.myspace.com/glasstablemusic
Clas Table /Mix
www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/home/detail/1/beatport#app=79a5&a486-index=6


Swartalf
www.last.fm/music/Swartalf
( ;D --> Strong industrial dark ambient with a lot of reference to In Slaughter Natives.)
Golden Section
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( ;D --> After releasing their debut album, Candles Burning Blue, in 1996, it was silent around the industrial doomed goths for three years. Their second album, The Golden Section, was an impressive display of ambient electronics combined with a equally ambient touch of droning blackmetal riffing. The incantating songlines and poetic references make this a strange but hypnotizing album. Probably on purpose, the band remains somewhat of a mystery when it comes to members, but it is generally accepted to have members of some more famous blackmetal bands involved.)
Swartalf - Walpurgis
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=xYM_CCVLnu0&feature=related


Deutsch Nepal / Janitor
www.myspace.com/deutschnepal
( ;D --> Former member of Swedish industrial cult band Njurmännen, Lina Baby Doll (real name Peter Andersson) set up his own musical project in 1991. Inspired by the classic Amon Düül II song of the same name, Deutsch Nepal started with a deep and fascinating industrial ambient sound, enriched by hypnotic rhythms, voice samples and repetitive structures.)
Social Report / Janitor 2010
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The Silent Container + A Silent Siege
www.oldeuropacafe.com/main.php?nav=pd&prdct=9645  
Dystopia Partycollecti
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Sasha
www.myspace.com/djsasha  
www.djsasha.com
( ;D --> DJ/producer/remixer SASHA is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative icons of the electronic genre. In addition to playing 100 shows across 30 countries in 2009 including a successful Ibiza residency at Cream Amnesia, Sasha had a prolific year in the studio – remixing top singles for Kasabian, Doves, Little Boots and Damian Lazarus. He also released remix packages and singles through his label imprint, emFire including The Midnight Eclipse EP.)
Mongoose
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Invol2ver
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Destroy Everything You Touch (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)
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www.youtube.com/watch#!v=TllEFAnaWQE&feature=related

Over And Out

Flavor of the week #29

Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky
www.hot-elephant.com/lp&ar.html
www.robotnick.it
( ;D --> Alexander Robotnick is the nickname that Maurizio Dami adopted in the early 80s when he started producing electronic music. AR means Alexander the worker in Russian.
In 1983 “Problèmes d’Amour”, a track he composed for Materiali Sonori/Fuzz Dance, an Italian Independent label, was an international hit and with time became a true “cult” of electronic dance music. In the late 80s and 90s MD got involved with different music genres and gave up the nickname that had made him popular. In 2002 Maurizio Dami, once again AR, became a DJ , beside continuing to produce music. Since 2003 AR has been djing and performing live in numerous clubs around the world playing both his old school tracks as well as the best of current electro-disco and electro-house. In 2002 HEM, Robotnick’s label , released “Oh no…Robotnick!” . Since then Robotnick has been producing electronic music for several labels. Ludus Pinsky (Lapo Lombardi) is a musician and composer who's been active and known in the Florentine Reggae music scene since the 80s (Il Generale, Jaka). More recently he's further developed his experience with music by letting his dub soul blend with Ambient and World Fusion projects (Chi, Alkemya).)
The Analog Session
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Obsession For The Disco Freaks by Alexander Robotnick
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Alexander Robotnick - Obsession for the disco freaks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNv9FIU6un4
Fun-Fare (Club Mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n2ykJcJdmA
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/05/flavor-of-week-19.html


Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
www.myspace.com/arielpink
www.arielpinkshauntedgraffiti.com
( ;D --> For the best part of a decade, Los Angeles native Ariel Rosenberg (b. 1978) has been carving some of the most intoxicating music going, a reclusive pop surrealist whose corroded productions have led to a cult following that has often been difficult to keep up with. Now signed to 4AD, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti release Before Today on June 7th, 2010. No longer a bedroom venture, Haunted Graffiti is now a fully realised band, comprised of Kenny Gilmore (keys/guitar/vocals), Aaron Sperske (drums) and Tim Koh (bass/vocals), all characters from the underground LA scene.)
Before Today
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( ;D --> For such a unique act, Haunted Graffiti manage to weave such a beguiling range of influences into their music. They can veer from the demented heavy metal of ‘Butt-House Blondies’ to the classic synth-rock of ‘I Can’t Hear My Eyes’, ‘Revolution’s A Lie’ with its pulsating motorik tints to their cover ‘Bright Lit Blue Skies’ (originally recorded by the Rocking Ramrods in 1966).)
Album Review:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14324-before-today
"Can't Hear My Eyes"
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=nlu2PDMtTvk&feature=related
( ;D --> Dont miss JOHN MAUS who is a core member of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and keyboard player with Animal Collective's Panda Bear, Maus has proved himself to be an extraordinary musician with a distinctive sound in his own right.)
www.myspace.com/johnmaus  
www.mausspace.com
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/johnmaus.shtml
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html


Lisa Gerrard
www.lisagerrard.com
( ;D --> "Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies..." Lisa Gerrard. Over a career that takes in almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of Australia's most ground-breaking and in-demand artists. Singer, composer and actress in El Nino de la Luna (a film which she also scored), Lisa brings a vision that is both precise and all-embracing to everything she does.
It is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance, one of the world's most original bands whose proud boast is that they never fitted into any neatly manufactured genre or predefined pigeonhole.
With Lisa's otherworldly voice counter-poised by Brendon's mellifluous tones, from the outset, they thought nothing of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani. Over nine albums between 1984 and 1995, the duo's musical canvas expanded with every release to take in a timeless mix of world music influences, medieval chants, folk ballads, baroque stylings, Celtic flavours, electronics, samples and anything else that took their fancy.)
The Black Opal
www.lisagerrard.com/Store.aspx?category=35bbc23a-017e-43f6-92a0-73de40f48637
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/flavor-of-week-52.html


Leæther Strip
www.myspace.com/leaetherstrip 
www.leaetherstrip.com
( ;D --> According to founder Claus Larsen, Leæther Strip is, and always will be, only him. Larsen was born on November 13, 1967 in Aalborg, Denmark. He first released music under the name of Leæther Strip in 1989. However, his 1995 release G.A.W.M.U.S. (Getting Away With Murder U. S.) included two early demos from 1982 and 1984, with the latter forming the unknown beginning of the band according to an interview conducted with Claus Larsen. In 1991, Larsen created a side-project called Klute in which he also remained the sole member. It can be argued, and is by many, that the sound of Leæther Strip throughout the early 1990s helped define what is today known as electro-industrial. In a search performed on MySpace on December 1st, 2008, 294 bands had listed Leæther Strip (or "Leather Strip") as a musical influence, although the true number of bands influenced by Larsen's work is undoubtedly much higher. In 1994, Claus Larsen drastically changed the sound of Leæther Strip, with the release of a synthesized semi classical album. Conceived as a soundtrack to a fictional film, it was named Serenade for the Dead. The releases since then have reincorporated electronic dance elements, and have redefined Leæther Strip into what Larsen calls, "symphonic electro".)
Mental Slavery
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/02/flavor-of-week-7.html


Alien Sex Fiend
www.myspace.com/aliensexfiend
www.asf-13thmoon.demon.co.uk
( ;D --> Formed in late 1982 at the Batcave_Club in London (where Nik worked) by the Wades along with David James (aka Yaxi Highrizer, guitar) and Johnny "Ha Ha" Freshwater (drums), the band became known in the gothic scene for their psychobilly, dark electronic, industrial sound, heavy samples and loops and manic vocals.)
Death trip
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( ;D --> 2010 release, the 13th studio album from the Goth legends, their first new album in six years. Death Trip features 10 original songs recorded in Hallucinosound. Self-written, self-produced and self-financed, Death Trip is a truly independent release from a totally independent band. This album is 100% Alien Sex Fiend's own creation! The album is a B movie sci-fi / horror concept, each track with a connection to the next, covering a diverse sonic spectrum from old skool Fiend sound to Punk and Industrial to current cutting edge.)
Revival:
Acid bath
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( ;D --> Acid Bath is without a doubt a shining example of how Alien Sex Fiend sets the standard for the "Goth" genre of music. From beginning to end the album constructs a dark, melodic tone that resonates with tracks like "She's a Killer" and "Breakdown and Cry". The truly haunting synthesizer and audio effects coupled with lead singer Nik Fiend's eerie vocal range provides a unique experience on every track.)
Breakdown And Cry
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=NUaJVOCktnk&feature=related
She's a Killer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMZFeYa9zyk
E.S.T. Trip to the Moon
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Tqbwu02E0HU&feature=related

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Flavor of the week #28

Yasuharu Motomiya
www.myspace.com/myasotto
www.yasuharumotomiya.com
www.nordform.org
( ;D --> Yasuharu Motomiya was born in Japan. He started nordform since 2001 with his friends.They loved music and humor. Then he met with John Connell. Afterwards he participate Grain Records. He expression idea from human, music, and all art form on electronic music.)
Dark Brown
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Ireland
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Niigata
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=7bDYj_8U-qM&playnext_from=TL&videos=Eqx7IlYaID8


DJ Hell
www.myspace.com/djhell
( ;D --> Helmut Josef Geier, professionally known as DJ Hell is a German house-techno DJ. He is the label boss of International DeeJay Gigolo Records and has been responsible for many of the big records to come out of the electroclash that emerged in Berlin in the mid-nineties. He is seen as the musical initiator of the 80's revival movement later known as electroclash popularizing the music from his hometown Munich from the mid to late 90's.)
CD Twelve
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Teufelswerk
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-12.html
DJ Hell featuring Bryan Ferry - U Can Dance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOS5rrzKmWo


Solitary Experiments
www.myspace.com/solitaryexperiments
www.solitaryexperiments.de
( ;D --> The Berlin-based trio Solitary Experiments has long since understood the fact that good electronic music will require more than bringing together some synthesizer presets with some cuddly beats. With much emphasis on good song writing, catchy melodies and multi-faceted arrangements as on club-compatible beats and solid bass. The anthemic Electro-tracks keep the delicate balance between catchiness and a thorough dose of power that keeps them from ever drifting into Pop-muzak realms.)
In The Eye of the Beholder
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A Rush of Ecstasy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWBci0OoqfA


Nosaj Thing
www.myspace.com/nosajthing
www.nosajthing.com
( ;D --> After cutting his teeth by making music on various archaic computers and programs in his early years, Nosaj Thing is now, without a doubt, among L.A.'s finest musical modulators. His electronic soundscapes and wild beat tectonics play like vignettes that affect the listener's mind as deeply as he hits their soul. Nosaj Thing creates nothing less than the sound mastery of beat driven, experimental electronics from a gifted noise constructor.)
Drift
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( ;D --> Nosaj's remarkable, entrancing debut album gathers sundry influences, from U.K. dubstep to Towers of Asia-styled eclectitronic, into a 36-minute computerized symphony.)
Views/octopus EP
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Retroid
www.myspace.com/retroidmusic
www.retroidmusic.com
( ;D --> Adam Huszár is a hungarian producer and dj who started producing ambient and electro type music since 1998. Pioneer artists like Hybrid, BT, Crystal Method inspired his work and after few years he turned to progressive breaks and house. He affectionately uses atmospheric elements and lot of melodies in his productions. Adam gets involved more and more music genre and nowdays he produces on a very wide spectrum of music under different aliases and collaborations. In 2007 he founded his first label Morphosis Records to release his own and other artists music. The label mainly focused to progressive breaks and house.)
Korona Retroid remix
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Lemniscate
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Retroid Remix EP
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Flavor of the week #27

Vomito Negro
www.myspace.com/vomitonegro1
www.vomitonegro.com
( ;D --> Vomito Negro is a Belgian industrial band formed in 1983. Over the past years they have established a name for themselves as uncompromising aural architects, combining power with emotion, electro with vision. The name is also Latin for "black vomit", a phenomenon that arises in the last stage of the disease yellow fever, when the patient throws up his putrefied intestines and ultimately dies.)
Skull and Bones
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The 2K10 Remakes
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Suicide Commando
www.myspace.com/suicidecommando
( ;D --> For over twenty years, Industrial experimentalist aka Suicide Commando has carried the dark electro heritage of acts like Klinik, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy in its heart and musical soul. Bearing these influences on his sleeve Van Roy turned these inspirations into a superb high-octane and highly aggressive, danceable EBM-industrial / dark electro hybrid aiming straight for the club-dancefloors. Over the years Suicide Commando bombed us with numerous clubhits like See you in hell, Desire, Hellraiser, Love breeds suicide, Cause of death:suicide, Bind torture kill … which turned Suicide Commando into one of the dark underground's most beloved dance acts of the last decade. Bombast, extreme power and a critical view on today's society.)
Implements Of Hell (Deluxe)
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( ;D --> Johan Van Roy is simply amazing when it comes to Terror EBM; harsh melodic beats to distorted vocals.)
God is in the rain (wumpscut remix)
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=k9HD4BbMCW0&playnext_from=TL&videos=cV6_PjN3pLc
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-43.html


Electrokinesia
www.myspace.com/electrokinesia
( ;D --> Enter British Columbia's, Electrokinesia, this is Acid House at its best. Imagine Aphex Twin circa 'Selected Ambient Works' merged with the cutting edge programming of Astrobotnia and you are only getting half the picture. Electrokinesia's Aelfric Michael Avery has been producing music since 1987, spanning 8 albums, 2 ep's and a slew of singles. The multi-instrumentalist is most famous for his re-workings of ancient European folk music, under the moniker of Aelfric.)
Bitchez Luv Pussy
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Hydroglyphics
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Marco Bailey
www.myspace.com/marcobailey
www.marcobailey.com
( ;D --> Having a superstar status in Belgium, he travels the world playing the biggest events as well as the small intimate clubs. His mixture of party techno, minimal and electronic house means he is a permanentfixture at all major European festivals and clubs.)
Congonhas
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Tel Aviv/Nova
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Watergate
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Watergate (Aalberg & Angstrom Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv81XfGP0HY


Sophya
www.myspace.com/sophyamusic
( ;D --> Sophya was formed in the late 90's by Idan K and Sonja R By the end of 1999 , the band was signed to 'Xymox Control' (owned by Ronny Moorings of the Dutch band 'Clan Of Xymox') Based in Holland - Amsterdam. In 2000, SOPHYA release of their critically Highly acclaimed debut album "THE AGE OF SOPHYA")
Livid Looking Glass Compilation No. 1 (the Dream)
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Dream
http://www.discogs.com/Sophya-Dream/release/222895
The Age of Sophya
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